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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 10:24 AM
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Peru and The Long Genocide, 1492 to ??
Peru and The Long Genocide, 1492 to ??
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/11/741166/-Peru-and-The-Long-Genocide,-1492-to-

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The deep-seated racial conflict in Peru has its beginning with Contact. Europeans came to Peru to steal the riches, genocide ensued, and the same process continues today. It is not accomplished with gas chambers, it is not as explicit as the European methods of the last century, but it continues and the toll, many tens of millions, continues to mount.

Europeans do not have the right to draw a line around an Indigenous American territory, declare sovereignty, and impose their own rules--not in 1492, not in Mexico in 1523, nor in Peru in 2009. There is no real difference between doing it 500 years ago or doing it today. Because the frontier of the conquest is in remote jungles and inaccessible regions, where the few remaining traditional Native populations survive, their genocide is easily ignored. It is the game genocide that began over 500 years ago, THE LONG GENOCIDE, and it must STOP.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 12:34 PM
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1. VIDEO: Actor Q’orianka Kilcher Heads to Peru to Support Indigenous Rights
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